Maybe make a female slave an offer, she could have an easy life doing the easy work if she did what I wanted sexually. No repercussions if she didn't take the offer and she could quit anytime and go back to what she was doing before.

But you're right. If a price of a 12 oz bottle of Coke today by itself was $1.80, that works out to ~$.41 in 1975, within the (admittedly Yahoo-level reliable) $.35 to $.75 range. It is surprisingly hard to find a price of a single bottle online.

I'm sure somebody far more knowledgeable on the subject of the history of Coke prices can answer better than I have, but a few quick searches and calculations show that a 12 oz bottle today is under half the cost of the same bottle back in 1975.

A 24-pack of 12 oz. Coke from my local Sam's Club costs ~$11. Divide that by 24 and each Coke is about $.45 (buying a single 12 oz. Coke is more expensive of course). A price of a 12 oz. bottle of Coke in 1970s cost $.35 to $.75 according to a Yahoo answer (best I could find on short notice).

$.45 of 2015 USD has the buying power of $.10 back in 1975 according to this calculator.

The Chinese people have probably been around 3000 years, but a Chinese state certainly has not. Are you intentionally confusing the two to drive home a political point?

Over the last 300 years, China has suffered large, devastating, bloody civil wars and rebellions, the smallest of which make the United States civil war look like a walk in the park. More people have died in some of these rebellions than people have died in the entire military history of the United States.

If you're going to turn this sub into an even shittier version of /r/news, try getting the history right at least.